The Communitarian Reader

Beyond the Essentials
Herausgeber: Rothschild, Elanit; Volmert, Andrew

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Produktbeschreibung

The Communitarian Reader: Beyond the Essentials brings together essays by prominent social thinkers reflecting on issues ranging from moral obligations to civil liberties after 9/11. The result is a book both practical and theoretical, and an essential guide for all interested in further exploring this important social movement.

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Produktdetails

• Rights & Responsibilities
• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 421g
• ISBN-13: 9780742542198
• ISBN-10: 074254219X
• Artikelnr.: 20980754

Autorenporträt

Amitai Etzioni is the founder of the communitarian movement and university professor at George Washington University. He is the editor of The Responsive Community: Rights and Responsibilities, a communitarian quarterly and the author of numerous books on political and social theory, including The New Golden Rule and My Brother's Keeper. Andrew Volmert is completing his PhD at Yale University. Elanit Rothschild is mangaging editor of The Responsive Community.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 The Responsive Community Platform: Rights
and Responsibilities Part 3 I Theory and Social Philosophy Chapter 4 No
Community, No Democracy Chapter 5 Combining Value Pluralism and Moral
Universalism: Isaiah Berlin and Beyond Chapter 6 Legislating Morality in
Liberal Democracies Chapter 7 On a Communitarian Faith Chapter 8 Are
Particularistic Obligations Justified? A Communitarian Examination Part 9
II The Communitarian Society Chapter 10 Enforcing Norms: When the Law Gets
in the Way Chapter 11 Social Mores Are Not Enough Chapter 12 Confessions of
an Alleged Libertarian (and the Virtues of "Soft" Communitarianism) Chapter
13 The Contours of Remoralization Chapter 14 The Duty to Rescue: A Liberal
Communitarian Approach Chapter 15 Does Socioeconomic Inequality Undermine
Community? Implications for Communitarian Theory Chapter 16 Americans as
Communitarians: An Empirical Study Part 17 III Community Chapter 18
Developing Civil Society: Can the Workplace Replace Bowling? Chapter 19
Self-Sacrifice, Self-Fulfillment, and Mutuality: The Evolution of Marriage
Chapter 20 Peer Marriage Chapter 21 Community and the Corner Store:
Retrieving Human-Scale Commerce Chapter 22 Boston's Ten Point Coalition: A
Faith-Based Approach to Fighting Crime in the Inner City Chapter 23 Can
Design Make Community? Part 24 IV Communitarian Policies Chapter 25 Rights
and Responsibilities, 2001 Chapter 26 Confusing Freedom with
License-Licenses Terrorism, Not Freedom Chapter 27 We Can Strike a Balance
on Civil Liberties Chapter 28 Liberal Sectarianism? Social Capital,
Religious Communities, and Public Funds Chapter 29 The Benefits of
Surveillance? Chapter 30 Military Secrets and First Amendment Values
Chapter 31 Diversity Within Unity: A New Approach to Immigrants and
Minorities Part 32 V Dialogues Chapter 33 Virtue and the State: A Dialogue
between a Communitarian and a Social Conservative Chapter 34 Virtue,
Self-Interest, and the Good: A Dialogue on Communitarianism and Classical
Liberalism